🇹🇷 Turkey

Overview

AiPrise verifies Turkish businesses against the Central Registration System (MERSIS) and the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette. A business verification returns the company profile and, for some companies, shareholders and board members.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, registered address. Status and registration date for about 6 in 10 companies
Board members	Yes, for some companies	About 1 in 15 companies
Shareholders	Yes, for some companies	About 1 in 5 companies
Ultimate beneficial owners	No

Document	Returned
Register extract	No
Articles of association	No
Financial statements	No
UBO extract	No

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification (company data)	19 seconds	48 seconds

These are typical times from production, not a service-level commitment: set timeouts well above them, or use callbacks.

Company types

Companies in the Turkish trade registry are covered. The legal form comes back for a few companies only, for example Private limited company (Ltd.).

Sources

Register	What it gives
Central Registration System (MERSIS) and Turkish Trade Registry Gazette	Company profile, shareholders, board members

Identifiers

Search by legal name, with country_code set to TR. The result carries the trade registry number.

Identifier	Format	Example
Trade registry number	5 to 7 digits	`123456`

Statuses and legal forms

Every result carries the register's own status in registration_info.status and an AiPrise status in registration_info.normalised_status. The normalised status is one of Active, Suspended, Dormant, Dissolved / Struck Off, In Liquidation / Insolvency or Unknown.

Register status	Normalised status
Active	Active
(empty)	Unknown

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Missing status	About 4 in 10 results have no register status and normalise to `Unknown`.
Chairmen are directors	`Chairman` normalises to `DIRECTOR`.

Limits

Officers and shareholders are returned for some companies only.
UBOs and documents are not returned.